Justice League: A Better World

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Apokolips Invasion
HP=90
(+ 35HP to 3 characters in a special mission)
At the end of 2009 and immediately after the event known as Four Horsemen of Apokolips, the Apololips Invasion began. The Four mind controlled villains from that event were only the to a more bigger and terrifying army.

After that bold maneuver, the Justice Lords tried to concentrate all their forces into containment of the troops of Para Demons remaining on planet Earth when Darkseid generated his own Boom Tube and came to finish all up: “You have only delayed the inevitable. My machine can be fixed, your doom cannot be avoided.”

The heroes tried to diminish the forces, attack him directly, avoid his Omega Beams (taking damage in the process) and seen how each offensive and defensive maneuver only gave Darkseid time to relocated troops and continue his attempt. He even claimed “leave now or die now is only the difference between letting me take Africa or letting me take the world”.

Eventually the only offensive the Justice Lords could take was the hardest one: Nuke Chad to destroy half the armies of Apokolips or lose the world. It was thousands of lives to save billion of lives. The nuke drop. After the dust settle only Darkseid was standing. He told the Justice Lords: "The other Earth was less eager to use such a dangerous weapon against me. You are different. Still, is only a matter of time.” Darkseid left and took the remaining troops with him.

FOURGENERALS OF APOKOLIPS

General Subterfuge – Finds what heroes are going to be in each battle. Amazing Grace – She uses her spy and seductress skills to find information. (Detective:20)

General Inventive. Creates gadgets to counterattack specific heroe’s powers. Desaad – Modifies the powers of the heralds (the four horsemen) and gadgets that are built specifically against one of the heroes at a time. (Neutralize: 20)

Four Horsemen of Apokolips
HP=45
Four villains (two of them considered dead) equipped with the strange alien harness and mind controlled attack Earth-50 in Germany, Central Africa, China and Kansas. Lord Superman sends the Justice Lords to stop the menace. Lord Martian Manhunter will heal Captain Atom left catatonic by the same harnesses, then send him to battle Major Force. Lord Batman and The Atom will destroy The Parasite. Flash and Raven will delay Major Force. Lady Wonder Woman and Lord Green Lantern will delay Black Adam as Martian Manhunter is suppose to heal his mind and offer him a pardon.

Apokalips Harness of Control [Int: 20, Body: 20, Phobia: 20] Limitations: The harness intelligence attribute is used to keep the wearer in his mission and under the effect of the phobia. The harness will destroy itself and leave the wearer catatonic (Mind=0) if the harness is destroyed, removed or the mind control over the wearer is lost.

Note: Lord Martian Manhunter found out how to disable the control of the Phobia over the mind controlled warrior. A Mind Blast with a trick shot ( -3 CS) must be made against the Phobia. The RAPs made to the Phobia will diminish the Phobia but will only break the control when diminished to 0. The APs of OV/RV will be the Phobia APS/Phobia APS if the character is catatonic and Phobia APS/Character’s Mind if the character is still under the mind control.

FOURHORSEMEN OF APOKOLIPS
(All Horsemen have + 4 CS to their use of powers.)

War Horsemen- Turns people into violent warriors under his command 10 AP’s range. Major Force " This is my chance to be the general of generals on the time of the final war who will end all wars! " PEGASUSWARMEDAL [Body: 10, Hypnosis: 20, R#: 2]
Bonuses: Hypnosis has a range of 9APs.
Limitations: Hypnosis only causes compulsions to follow war commands issue by the wearer. The device will destroy itself if removed from the horseman.

Pestilence Horsemen – Controls a hive of mutant insects. Black Adam " I’m making everyone pay for what they did to Egypt with the seven plagues, only this time there will be plagues without end! " DRAGONFLYRING [Body: 10, Animal Control: 20, R#: 2]
Limitations: Animal Control only works on insects. The device will destroy itself if removed from the horseman.
Mutant Insect [Dex: 4, Str: 03, Body: 1, Int: 0, Will: 0, Mind: 1, Infl: 0, Aura: 0, Spirit: 1, Init: 4. Powers: Invulnerability: 2, Full Vision: 3, Shrinking: 11, Systematic Antidote: 8.
The swarm does a Team Attack at – 10CS, has an area of half the APs of the Animal Control power. To destroy the swarm a multi attack of + 10/ + 10 CS must be used to destroy all the individuals of the swarm.

Famine Horsemen. His power of drain has now a range of 10 Ap’s. The Parasite " I can feel unborn babies dying of weakness miles away… " NIGHTMAREBELT [Body: 10, Power Reserve: 20, R#: 2]
Bonuses: Powers modified by Power Reserve have their range increased by 7APs.
Limitations: The Power Reserve only works extending the range of effect on Power Drain and Vampirism. The device will destroy itself if removed from the horseman.

I. Am. The. New. God. All is one in Darkseid. This mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices. When I make a fist to crush your resistance. It is with three billion hands. When I stare into your eyes and shatter your dreams. And break your heart. It is with six billion eyes. Nothing like Darkseid has ever come among you; nothing will again. I will take you to a hell without exit or end. And there I will murder your souls! And make you crawl and beg! And die! Die! DIEFORDARKSEID!

The Morning with Two Stars
HP=55
2009: Starman reappears in the Justice Police facility of Germany with what appears to be a controlling harness. He is destroying the Headquarter when confronted by Lord Green Lantern. This time the heroes are able to distract the powers of the harness enough to study its technology and to capture Starman without mind damage. They still need to place him under the care of Miss Martian to facilitate his recovery.

Lord Martian Manhunter was able to scan the mind of Starman and sense: “A fear so overwhelming that it feels like love.”

At the same time the Star Laboratories Facility located on Canada was attacked by an army of unknown with jet packs, blaster cannons and sensor scrambling suits. They came to destroy the evidence that the Justice Lords have recovered from crime scenes around the world and are studying to discover the source of the technology used to steal Black Adam and Major Force from Cadmus Project and later Captain Atom and Starman. The leaders of the attackers engaged Lady Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel in hand to hand combat. A fake Lady Hawkwoman tricked Lady Wonder Woman and the leader escaped not before destroying the facility and every captured or fallen soldiers.

Smoke and Mirrors
HP=40
The villain team Light and Mirrors used the energy of the Nuclear Reactor located on Coast City to project a series of illusion opponents to serve as a diversion while they stole a series of high tech components that can be used to enhance their gadgets.

1999: A series of attacks on the cities of Metropolis, Central City and Ethiopia. The attackers are high tech alien armored soldiers tampering with energy and communication sources in way so invasive that even the remote viewing of the security systems of the Justice Watchtower are affected. Their objective was to hijack a teleporter beam and enter the Justice Watchtower. They are able to do that almost killing The Atom in the process.

The objective is for Blackfire to be able to capture the Star Sapphire Gem and add the powers of the Star Saphire to her owns. The battle that ensures is strong enough that the Justice Watchtower security is compromised but the Justice Lords are able to capture must of the infiltrating team and recover the valuable and dangerous object.

During the battle Lord Green Lantern noticed that the artifact was behaving more sentient and with more powers that it was before and Lady Wonder Woman was even mentally attack by the artifact tried to convince her to use it.

The Nightmare Land
HP=70
2009: Reports are made by the Watchmen that the people of the city of Coast City that there are rampage and chaos. People are crazy. All Justice Police send to the area are inside the effect and cannot be reached. The video feeds show them deep in fear, fighting invisible opponents or each other. They need to send a team with Martian Manhunter leading. Once inside the zone, they are inside the range of the weapon and the telephaty link keeps then together inside one shared nightmare. They have to fight their own monsters in the nightmare and the last of the monsters is the machine that is keeping the nightmare using a powerful Phobia effect. The character’s Drawbacks, like their fears or irrational attractions are turn into monsters. (the sum of the HP of the drawbacks as the APs like the Animate Image power.) The machine was destroyed, the villain escaped leaving only evidence that the technology used was the same as the one used to kidnap Captain Atom in The Amazing Land and that the event was a test of the machine.

The Mystic Community is under the scrutiny of the Justice Lords and the decision to led the Helm of Fate lose from its prison to find the next Doctor Fate even when they don’t know if these will be an ally or enemy.

Two superheroes have disappeared after speaking with Catherine Grant. Starman ( in Central City ) and Captain Atom ( in Coast City ). They both are caught in camera in different cities entering a building in flames to rescue an old granny and then a flash of light and they never exit the building.
There is a masked radiation that is the same as the one found on Cadmus Project when the two prisoners escaped. Black Adam and Major Force. Investigations discover how to by-pass the masking but need to still discover the source of the technology.

In terms of the objectives of Ras al Ghul and The League of Assassins what the Justice Lords are doing is a way of destroying evil that is effective and they won’t get in their way. They went into hiding waiting for the moment they are needed to fix things.

2009: The Justice Lords are able to stop Giganta but they were late to save an attack to Houngan that killed him in Los Angeles. Taking into custody his attacker, interrogating the suspects ( including the lobotomized Atomic Skull ), doing forensics on the bodies and even using telephaty the combined effort of all the heroes tracked the attackers to Brother Eye. The Cyborg Superman’s tampering of Brother Satellite Grid has triggered – in the Satellite – a form of sentient artificial intelligence. The newly life form has decided that he must fulfill his role and finish what the Justice Lords started. He has taken information on Cadmus Project files and Metapower Projects of Lexcorp and created the OMAC Virus to produce an army of OMACs on the unsuspected 1,373,462 ex-employees of Lexcorp.

Now the AI wants has learn enough to create his army and appears to be following a set of directives:
1. Protect humanity. Destroy all menaces against humanity.
2. Destroy all metahumans targeted as menaces against humanity.
3. Justice Reserve are metahumans.
4. Justice Lords are metahumans.
5. Destroy all metahumans.
6. All humans are metahumans.